Young woman in an antebellum dress and bonnet is picking flowers outside the open windows of a home. On the oval print's lower right border is photographer Kate Matthews' signature and also in her handwriting "June, 1860". Given that Matthews was...

A gathering of spectators, mostly women, watches as a horse-drawn carriage with an African-American driver wearing a top hat and passengers in antebellum period costumes stops in front of Federal Hill mansion, also known as "My Old Kentucky Home,"...

The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 32. No. 24. but is actually Vol. 33. No. 31. There are creases across the center of each page that...

A small dog, perhaps Pekingese, lies on a small bench on top of a table. He is looking up at a framed photograph of an antebellum couple by Kate Matthews (ULPA 2007.14.031.p). There are also books, a basket with knitting needles and yarn, and a...

A young woman in an antebellum dress sits with a young man on a garden bench. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in tableaux vivants, or living pictures, based on fairy tales, books, or poems. This appears to be one...

Young woman wearing an antebellum dress is sitting on a bench in a garden. Kate Matthews frequently persuaded relatives and neighbors to pose in tableaux vivants, or living pictures, based on fairy tales, books, or poems. This appears to be one of...

Portrait of Charles Kinnaird Graham (1824-1889), a sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, an attorney, an engineer, and later a brigadier general in the Union Army during the United States Civil War. In March 1865, he was appointed a brevet...